: a polite expression of one's gratitude

Examples of thank-you in a Sentence

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Post-event, collect customer info (opt-ins or giveaways) for thank-you emails, highlights and to guide them to your permanent channels. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025 All at once, a generation of dazzling young people who had studied the canon in deadening classrooms remembered that poems could be, had always been, anything at all—an invitation, an apology, a thank-you note, a recipe, a valentine. Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025 The show, which was announced on June 9, is meant to be a thank-you to loyal fans, with legitimate tickets being sold for no more than $50 a pop, Bryan said. John Wenzel, Denver Post, 1 Aug. 2025 Some performers — though not all — accept tips as a way to say thank-you for an especially moving, hilarious or horrifying production. Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for thank-you

Word History

Etymology

from the phrase thank you used in expressing gratitude

First Known Use

1792, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of thank-you was in 1792

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“Thank-you.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thank-you. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

Kids Definition

thank-you

noun
ˈthaŋ-ˌkyü
: a polite expression of one's gratitude
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